COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
Brewer Eric Harper has gone old school for Summit Unchained #11. As in, Old 152. Inspired by the Kentucky Common beer style that was popular before Prohibition, it actually uses a sour mash of maize and rye in addition to traditional malts and Cluster hops (just about the only hop available in the U.S. back then).
The results are anything but sour, yielding a chestnut-colored brew with a slightly spicy floral aroma, biscuit, caramel notes and crisp, clean bitterness.

12oz bottle poured into a shaker. Pours a lightly hazy dark amber with an orange hue and a finger of off white head. Aroma of citrus and grass with a little caramel and grapefruit. Taste is light bitter. Grassy and earthy with a hint of lemon and caramel. Medium bodied with a slightly thick texture. Lively carbonation and a long finish. Overall, not bad. I would drink it again.

12 oz. bottle poured to a Czech-pils glass with a hazed, brownish amber hue, abundant and persistent, moussy, light tan head foam, and lasting, curtainy cling to the lacing. The aroma was sweet bread, toast, caramel, and a slight hint of chocolate? Medium bodied, with fair carbonation, the solid maltiness was complemented by a lingering, earthy, rind-like, slightly herbal hop bitterness. Finished with just a touch of tartness, but mainly dry and crisp, with good sessionability.

12oz. bottle. Interesting aroma, with notes of caramel, grain, toasted bread, hop spice, faint apple and touches of doughy yeast. Hazy red-orange in color, some slight sediment which was swirled and poured, with a frothy, lasting, off-white head and thick lacing to match. Flavor profile is somewhat bitter, fruity and malty, with aspects of bready wheat, citric rye, toasted and lightly sweet caramel malts, somewhat herbal, spicy hops, finishing with hints of red apple skin and even a bit of lemon. Some sharp effervescence on the palate but with a smooth and creamy mouthfeel, lightly astringent and mostly dry with a medium body. I had no idea what this was when I picked it up, and after drinking it, I still don’t. It’s certainly not bad, just a little rough around the edges (which may be authentic for the style, for all I know).

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